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Nehemiah 2:15
Nehemiah 2:15 is verse 15 of Nehemiah chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
so I went up the valley by night and inspected the wall. Then I headed back and reentered through the Valley Gate.
King James Version
Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned.
World English Bible
Then I went up in the night by the brook and inspected the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.
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Nehemiah 2:13–17 · Berean Standard Bible
13 So I went out at night through the Valley Gate toward the Well of the Serpent and the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that had been broken down and the gates that had been destroyed by fire.
14 Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and the King’s Pool, but there was no room for the animal under me to get through;
15 so I went up the valley by night and inspected the wall. Then I headed back and reentered through the Valley Gate.
16 The officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, for I had not yet told the Jews or priests or nobles or officials or any other workers.
17 Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned down. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
2 Samuel 15:23Everyone in the countryside was weeping loudly as all the people passed by. And as the king crossed the Kidron Valley, all the people also passed toward the way of the wilderness.
Jeremiah 31:38“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when this city will be rebuilt for Me, from the tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.
Jeremiah 31:39The measuring line will once again stretch out straight to the hill of Gareb and then turn toward Goah.
Jeremiah 31:40The whole valley of the dead bodies and ashes, and all the fields as far as the Kidron Valley, to the corner of the Horse Gate to the east, will be holy to the LORD. It will never again be uprooted or demolished.”
John 18:1After Jesus had spoken these words, He went out with His disciples across the Kidron Valley, where they entered a garden.